[PLUG] A moment of silence please
Michael Rasmussen
mikeraz at patch.com
Thu Aug 14 15:10:03 UTC 2003
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 12:30:23PM -0700, Steve Beattie wrote:
>
> Call me silly, but having an internet connected machine be woefully out
> of date w.r.t. security updates is not something to brag about (yes,
> there've been security vulnerabilities fixed in the 2.2 kernels since
> 2.2.12 was released).
>
Point taken. When the box was directly connected to the internet it
would get hacked into about every nine months starting in 1998.
I learned a lot. :) Especially about how to clean up after an attacker
without taking the box offline.
After I put it behind a firewall it was never compromised.
--
Michael Rasmussen aka mikeraz
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